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Out GottenbUr&h, Malta, I Dubljn, , 3 Watorlyrd, STOCKi , RAY AT TTTLLvp, O'CLOCK. Console - 67 66i 67 1 Red. Ann. - 66 TH • E SU N. giot,gm cluas DICILIII 'ALVIN% AUUSAT ? L 0 N D 0 IV, MONI)AY, JANvitur 9, 1809. Art n vary early hour yesterday morning Captain Wi;inn.kst, who was lately Aide de Camp to Sir A V't'4l.lll WaLtitiLtYi arrived at Lord CASTLE.. 1, a4o Office, with Dispatches from- Sir Jouti i\lpotie,' The intelligence which he brings, fully contirins the opinion we expressed on Saturday, viz. I „ that BUONA E PAitT would Clirea the WiAle, or nearly the r lithe, of his force, 'alpinist . theL" British Army, a:!a•LttA h would endeavour, if pOssitile, tai place himself' upon its rear. In order, to accomplish this plan, Marshal, Salmi', took a position at Saldattlia, is hopes of inducing Sri Jont4 Moore to advance to attoeli. him. The •Freneh' Gctieral had about 18,004 men at Saldanha, and also had detachments alorg the river to the bridge of Cart ion. Sir .1. Moortodeter. tuitieilodrive the French . from this posi tion, and made dispositions for an attack on the 23d,' but be received not only that Soult hsl,,reeived forceinents,;but that J3tlONAPAl{M,'wnadiaricilig by fired marches from !Visdrid,w nit nearly the w holt; of his lopes, in order to fall, cyan lti flank and 'Under these . circ , 4rostaoces; it became indispensably usteesiary that Sir ,fort,. MONitg ShOl,ild logic Ito time le commencing Ws retreJt, because even a vie,- tory over Sootm' would only have, increased the (Linger to vvhich the Uritisli Army was e!tposed, of koaclui 44 retreat out of r ; but we bra con'vinced that illont4 would not have, risqueci a decisive battle --tiss would have skirmished and retreated for the purpose of inducing the English to follow him ; while Ilnoss?sto's was advapcing by forced marches to ward. their rear. Sir Jonty, therefore,eorp monced bia retreat from Sahnutt to Ilenevente, and front' thptice to Astorga l and he intended to continue his its to Villa Franca, SO as to secure his commit*: niiiati,at with thegoast, ifs farther rottertt should be Ity. Doting dist; retrogradc movement, our c.:,..dry had . sevrill skirmishes with that of the Erierny,''and in every instintee they were decisively ‘J(.e),,,1 'toys, altht , ugh they had almost ulWays a pun. :;up..l:iority of, rionabers to contend with.-rt t r 4 tir..4 trre, it Appearl, i).01 ,pushed fors.vard , nearip, the V. 1110 of ltis ex:miry, in the hopes of cutting off, or lt , :vit Of itunedmA - ot)r retreat, His' Ullion, rotli ; ;lctc.l.,. frustrated'. (..041t„; L11)041 rt.'; Li 11)g (11 4 f;; 1 ` forivation that there. :u94,a.hatit 700 (U`l.o,,ns' at Niagorga'i on which hiilApdaltiii (firmed pl-ti to tllr'• which to a 4:lfee 4,,,u1 flits e«).....ap0 of a tlragoon out of a patrule, which t 0,7 1 ,; ptisoneri he was therefore re4twed to at,' in s tco. , l fit .o.trrot.uuling the French, hot in this ; 4 1esdy sineceetior.l, as he iteroted cuicAl4), hth regitnyui, took . !6,1) I ,l' ; ,,otiels; atilt another attunt hi'. tools 3MT kille4 , 3 1, i)ie I 00 (tithe enemy. IkJiktes this, sevens! other socceasful attacks were 1 - I) yi,e by Brigrplier General fiTuAtur, with the ingering. , On (Ire 28th I,ecernter, befell in :Ind drove back the enemy's advatieed guard of ca.. 011 the 2901, onr infteiltr haVing left Beno veille, liovet) squadroo of the Impi:rial Guard paY4ed tbo river, when - they w•cre 'attacked 'by Brigadier." sowgq, with the pickets'of the lath, 4t ij thet Germans, supported by the tpth, dragoons, tler a ah:9l) conflia, Brigadiet-Getlerni STIMAJIT . thov4 thelp “Cro , 6 the river, having; ' at)olle 30, wounded twenty.fuur, and taken ''7o..prisoners, tiriums whe,tu is the Cotmetteder of the Cavalry of the I.uperial Guard, General Lareevae, atuj 4 Co ini•oi.• When the Frenel; crossed the rivvr, three of tlittiuns belonging to the Flying Aftillery were 40,1400 splint them, and did great execution.-» , -0n thi4 day our luitt, In killed and wounded, was allow fifty meth Major liat c r. l .l., wa 614114 wounded. Sit thouiatid men belungibg to , the Marquis of RomkpA's army marched with Sir J.' IVloprta to Sit lingtin, on their retort), 4.1 they negleCite4d,to break d tt ate-bridge at MtMille, a part , of the rear guard —via taken by the erietpy'i dragoons. The Marquis's r. corps is by no means ip good condition, and he much complained of , the inn Terence nod want of zeal Iwhich is unfortunately manifested by the Spaniards in the cause /If their county, The above is the substance of the Dispatches re ceived frOtti Sir lklooue, the I.L.tails will be puhlished in the Gazette to-mot row evening. General LEFEIVRE landed at Plymouth nn Fri day. He says that as soon as BUoNAPAR rE heard that Sir JOHN MooxK had beg,tm to advance he left Madrid with die wholl of his army, with the excep tion (done Corps which he left in the Retii-o to overawe the inhabitants of the Capital. E hove received Amerient) Papers to the t7th November, but they d,) not contain any details re speeting the result of th debate upou'the qu2stion of the Embargo. YeSterdily 11.10rOillg his MAJESTY, Princesses So,. 1111 A, AUGUSTA and AmcLiA, at.companied by,Ladies CAROLINE) WAL,DEGIIAVE, SIDNEY, and CPANLEY, General?) CARTWRIGHT, and Vrizaoy, rode to St. George's Chapel, an,d heard a sei mon preached by the Rev, Mr, !Upon, from the 12th chapter of Ro mans, %erse 1. They 611611:yards leturned to the Palace. • Saturday the Duke of YOiu waned on the KING on businehi, and in tiitartiltiouti•returt.ed to London, Their MAJEsTiliS•and the Pit:kcEssif.s ate ex petted in town on Wedoesday. Our List letters from -Spain stale, that the plains, as well as the tnountaitium part of • Gallicia, were at ,that time covered a loot decp in snow. M the date •o( the late letters troallarbadoes, Sir G. Pa EvosT was daily expefted therefrom Hali fax, with ,1000 troops, to assktin the long-threaten-, ed attack on Martinique, There woe bOOO dis posable troops at Barbidoes,• and ,e.OOO more could be taken from the other Islands, making in the ag gregate, an army of 10,000 men, which, it was it was generally believed, would be fully competent to the service: t; • • • ' • ,Thesith heavy Dragoons are assembling at Arun del, grepatatory to their embarkation for Spain. By iceounti (root Bornb4 it appears that that Government has happilyisucceeded in establishing a friendly interctiurse with the .Seik tribes inhabiting the Punjab and the batik'S of the Attock, mea sure is considered of the utmost importance at the present crisis, as it would turnish t be •means of frus trating any designs n an enemy on the Wipiterti of India. The:; font:ming is an .estrlta from a private lettqr, which contains severed interesting particulars: Ocilttir;t4A, pac; 3; ,--7-Thi7 rpot tllti( UUC 1 !1(1 telligenCe 'that the ftijtkoh army ivo at antt Was advaneing along the bacilli of the Cea, that the 'Marquis of ittatittiA had removed his lietki qoatter3 to IY.fancAla; that tho enemy had pushed forward sow strong corps tesabay.),ln, Vii;ada, and into the mountains about lirecianos, but•it mated they have been oli4ed to fikll bat* on i;d the Ceti, and that ,erittrii:.rt: noo. , at gun, about a league from liter.intio4. This report is fotinded on the 'autliotity of a letter' which :Don it. ,01140 haSmeeived from hja n i d a Wat the town. , The head-quarters of the trench army eon. tinned on the 20th, tit Saldatia, waS'understbdd to have been strongly reintOrced train Alaya. The village of Escobar had .been plundared nod nearly destroyed, in consequente of thi, inhabitants having til'ed en a French patrole .101-rd the phi Le.- -, The enemy had reptiri.-2d Oa.? bralges Over the Val. deradupby end cett,,, and at som: of them censtrl6led works !Or their defence. 'The Marquis, de In rto. MANA has yeinforced the ti otitis lin 'the hitibana'r,in cunsluened of a' nti nit:lona corps Of the t:tiet»y hat ing et k ler e d the Montana . ' There are accounts here from Saragossa to tin-t rAlt ; the enemy occupied AtagOn, about miles distant', but nothing was 'known either of their ti.4;:e or intentions. The Stt pretne junta lite; removed to Sevill , ?. The tinny of Gen. LA PENA had tut thQ t tth tit. Clemente. Cenerals Mom.). and Gitizvuq' Lid, at the barnp data',- occul.ivd the p.w , ,,e5., in the mountains of 1,,a 'Mancha: eitserve the army of Grepada hivd :marched 116113 Gsudix to the frouttert; the reserves 'of Jean auk' Cordova were assembling on tht..G43- dalquivir, nod; Witli the tesizrve of AndalUsia, wonla form all at my of 114:1111y tilry thousand men ; indeed the last ficcount6 from Tinxillo induce the hope that the Patriotic corps to the sontliWard of Toledo, in, !eluding the divisions of Pima, iNiOrla 4 and, Gasolet, mecd One, Inindred thousttud mitt 4 French de tetolnuelli on ithe, rad appeared opposlte,to "Pottle sillies, but finding that -a body of I 3 iytli s:inalry was in that tieighbourhOod, retired precipitately towards Itneda Iti T NG'S TtlXATit2.—Tlit; pew Opera of Lo Ca pijoci444o Prmtita. was repeated On Saturday last, but .the house was nut ..vety. well: attend4(l4.. aigiiora COLTANI is interesting, but she is not trzdified to bc a leidtOpr Performer. V et,T;i IS 014 AIV G iwpits4,ogain . came. forward. The latter is a pleasing and. expres sive Dancer. The former is a wonderful rOrallO 0 ItTutuAtt one Of otir very ;lest gogiish Sing e rs, • • rino wlio rteoq flat Mir a cPmeallson with arty tureign Performers, in' his province, has been long sw ill that it was thought he could never be able to rezinne his public station. We are glad, howrer, to hod that he is so thuOt better as to promise ot entire rv covory. . _ _ empl o yed in designing a 'Nam!curt! fot the (ability Of Sir FaANc 15 PAII4;p, ijt his parish church, in Hampshire, and the work will; doubtless, exhibit all the classic tahte which can re , ult from gtnius anti a profound litiowk!gp of antivity.,in ea-s• vr that description. The Princess of WALIA gave a grand cutvrtain. mont, on Friday, at Kensington 'PMace;, in knonr of the Birth-oay of the Princeis Cu A 1(1,01111. 'l\ })out t:llty persons of dltoinOicn pnrtook of the . banquet. In the patty car..,14 an 4 we're intruducud. Thy pally di:i nut break up tint. 4 a 144 tP hour. The Rev. Mr.l44ti Kr, r G , t,who w Is,,pre s e n t e d to his 1414,ntsTv, lit It,l I,evoe on \V OM &tidy, s upon beiog rippoitiled Prvbelil (11,),,r! aa,, is the salt of the if-art of STmoi unp. iNTERcEpTED CORRE'SPONDENCE. (PUB,LlSlifill BY TitH,TapiCLl.) . " ' r Tile following intercept e d' cg stxmt en; I,as been published by the French:; It tnnexed''to the Se . v-mti!en.h 1 1 .3..i11et hi of the 14encliarmy, and is iti trodived 'by - the following shore preface:— . ff—We-foultd.at-Madrid ; at the Dake - Dt tgrAN -I.,\Dp's, two caskets; containing the papers of the Princess of ASTURIAS, in which fire things of the greatest importance. The-passage in a letter from her mother, dated on the 15th January, ii3o6, in for'tns us' of the opinion whieh the Queen * of St ctLY has herself of the English. • • These letters are full of proofs of the Comp'. racy which was furtning to break the friendship be t ween France and Spain." con. or WHAT IS witITTEN SYNIVATIIrTIC INK. IN Tim LETTER OF' atILLN CIIAHLOTTI, TO ltik; ..kIZINCIf.SS OP AS'IL/ItIAS JAN 15, 1 ao6. My beloved Child, I am infinitely uneasy at your situation, your heal h, and the increased grief you will bare in hearing of our cruel fate..iiut rely upon my troth. Du not. give credit to any alarm, which they will not fail iu charity to give you, and be prudent.-1 shall write to you with perfeti sin cerity,' and believe no other news, for I promise the heart and 'tenderness of my dear child to hide no thing froM you..--Do you not then believe any one . but me—We keep all in good health. r -but art (171411411 y uneasy.-"Mmuosit has been with 40,000 men on our frontier, since thi4 fatal and atctirsed de barkation of the English, who, with a cowardly per fitly without example, have, after having comp.°. mised us, quitted its at the moment of the greatest danger. They have ruined us—fluooaparte causes ' notking to be said or written, and •we shall le lost indeed.* We have but 8000 men in arms ---During the two years and a half the FrenCh remained with us, they exaaed that we should make no recruiting, They have thereby rendered all our force 'useless, and we are thus at their mercy, without the hope of defending ourselves against a force of fifty thot:iond men, and if they choose, of one hundred . thoniand men; deStrtyed, aqdfor for, years ntill-4in short, it is a niisery!without example, to' which our . • ' holy religion alone. Can make us resigned, that only conitlation 'in . ctll. four mi,cerie !Pe are , packing up evtry , forifivm the fronllers Aofiles irthe . 'six or! seven' days' i and we cannot sailer CilirSid . jAW to. te. mode p.isoners: ...Thus we are pre paring. svery thing, for , a disastrOns and eter nal 4epartme, and it wrings my heart. The King hal sent Cardinal Giqteral Rom') to Rome, and has hunt also to .Paris.. But neither •Finicn, nor ALC.VIER, tlor EtiGp4,4 13 EAUHARNOIS, nor MASSENA caO, as thq:say, stop the. march of the troop. 'Hence, Sr. TnEnDoEtt, who has been dispatched to join GALt.o, and to speak to him upon poipts, retn ii, Elt TtrYme tU i,vatdi cher our . atlairs ; and the Cardit;al is gone -to find ,13nostA 'PARTE either nt Munich mat Paris, to try to save us, Your goodjather is ready, to, satiety the genera/ and aluliCii(e and 44t.1e ' YRAN ' Cii. •WC hfridliCh] Prince) King, reserving to- himself' a, good pension, the fruit of apart of Ilk advances made by him; to the royal,finances. • Alany think this will le surniient to ccilin the aorm; Litt Ida riot think it, and am con. vialed that the cramp with,fid' the Iditdom of 41441. If the danger approach, we shall retire to Messina and into Calabria; to defend ourielyes; tit leak there; 'and remit the 'capture of SicilY----Judgef- Tisolkit.n, your two, sisters, a daughter in htw, seven months pregnant, who 'will lay in at 11'44- sina, tied knows la bore, two little ail- , deep so' Mtereiting, In .fine every body is in tears.' No one . . will rouain. very one, frightened by the last tin*iwishei -to in oft We have neither squadron, nor. any thing but two ships—it is a real desblation. • you shall know every thing—be prudent—do not strew any ill-temper at the harsh things that may tc44:y0t5,...4,,et them pass.,-they signify nothing:....- God Will judge go awl 'postorily.- 7 -No fake inter pipoions..—Your two sisters are in deep affliction. LEopoLD 011(1 FRANCIS will -go'. to Calabria to defend.: t postttit,..lll t,:hor - f,, Goa" will be dune---'Think, my dear child, of ve-esiablisli ing your' Ite:0111.:—C-gonclu61 yourself well—this life is, short- 7 the other. is eternal and sure—Do nut athi yptitself.at any t shall find gleam; to infgrm you of; emeiy t hing t hat concerns us.;..;fint do not, make' yOuisel(uneasy—God will aid us.Adiitu my fle# child of :your health—try to restore —think bless you—l embrace you, and am for life your ten tier mother and • In the kirrative of Colugno there is nothing writ. ten: inform me. you hove reeeltidnll safe, and c: 3 rea d it. Adieu, with heart end soul, :yours wholly, not withsettritli4 trifdreaditil riaefy. • ,ffr^*•74m COPY O 1 .Nkoft.vr 13 , Avniroriot IN BYMPATIIRTIC LOTTRAntobit attliNti CHARLOTTII lc ,- 'flu iiitlyGssi.ot:Asorvittikc. JANUARY 30, 1806. rklr and b#:li.led . Child, do not.be alle:tsy at °lir fate ; only :tact care of .:your God will have pity upon us, and nothing will happen to us. Ift;ve ate obliged to, fall hack` upon Sicily, I will av endeour, whenshall"' be all assembled -tor them to send a Vessel, under the pretence of quiet , ing the heart of the Queen, for her daughter: but, itt fa6t,to assure you _my beloved chjld„ vviglsoPe 4 to our fate.—ge prudent, do not speak out and i‘t every thing be said.—l haue nothing to ‘refiroa_ci myself.;—Josepis 'Bonaparte is believed to be efestinel to the Throne of Netpks— shut is villainous enotigh - '' .God permits it ; we must low our .heads.--Fat ' conciliar himself eternplarily, and no one caniehavr 41teri---Isalnfila (his wifil the daughter of the of Spain), •is in the eighth- month qf her pre? none, .; but happily she has s,idt apathy, is so 1111 3 1 and dull that she feels nothing warmly--ii isgncd for her health.—Your sisters and myself hovel:4lk same hoppiness.-,-Lovanud express to. you, m I cM64 our torments—but . God will rid us; do not be um' easy, and thinkCuly of your Ileattli--"Let them Clifid cise, and talk and discuss every thing without in s ; the ß n e lis p e r r o y de o n. ftit;w,i re l yßeattacll on you.edtoyart good lit;s bnd— Adieu, dear cbild, I . r ,..kne rushy things to 83 1 t° you, but time presses-4 embrace yon fiorn thta bottom of my heart, end Itam o your tender mother • and Mend. 1 writele the Queen end lo your husband--iti th e former, to speak io her q her eltild—to the other do tell him that it it hit duty to write to me, and that ,4 should Ge seen —Adieu, I 'will end e avour to send you lotelpgente relative t o ine .—B e trauquil on o or gecouut—ai embrace you—Adieu. ..„,* These passages, which we prjut irritalies, are prilit?4o the same tnainner in !lic'k'Peni.l) prhiihiej. • A. very gallant and s evere (t a lon was f o ught Pa Fridayse'unight, by the Sanriwich lugger. She t t i in with a large Fren c h l ugger, soon atter toUr in the afternoon, off the We of This, which sheen' gaged nearly . . two hour , ; an d s O de se - . wa s khe cat . test, that the enemy's main -,ail caught titet" : ' o ‘ ) , r three times, from the fire o f t h e .Sandwich; it wit .d gently the Intention of the enemy to - board, he ir qa , : f411 . 9f men (it is supposed iicer l v uo), Lod ice t h i t. Vitt:post she tan her bowsprit b e tween ;he Stin 4• "tvich's, top! ;.wd twain-masts • but the brisk tiro ( t round and emnister 'kepi tftiby the brave crew Ole Sandwich, prevented her accomplishing de' ed sign. At length she disengaged. herself, andsitet 'bit.- The Saudicick , pursued Ajar, but the vveialla being dark ands heavy, and the failing, she, at with her sweeps,. and made hei escape. rhe i°l and brisk. cannonade kept up by the Sandwich nit have made greet havoc among the . enemy's and it is certain • she must have been so much s lit , tered as to reach the shore with difficelty", Sendreich htutlon•itirisin—leilievt , ostr tieverkixo LI MO two of them so dangerously, that they tireere.ev peaed to live. Lieutenant AT &INS, the' bravo coo. mauder of the Sandwich, received a bail in the up' r icier ; ballphaarst beenof h s i i s n r o i g e l; t t t a a r a m ed ,..t:e a : n tr d t i l i te ic a i hZ ed bc do well. Mr. PHILLIPS) the wounded a musket-ball entered his right br as and passed out at his 'back. The first-mate f',: l _ / m aster, is dange.weunded 'by a ball passing through his leg. Tu ° rohil Sentleici4 monnts,l4 guns, and had sti men on boar t d . ''She arrived at Guernsey, on Saturday sennight,. Friday afternoon, the Diligeate store-ship art ired et Portsmouth from HaJifax : she left that Pia°(t br: the 3d ult. in company with two mast ships Frdaile and another), under convoy of the PeiltiA of 74 guns, Capt. Dooot.s,s,. from which s hi f: she, parted company oil the 13th nit- on the h of Newfoontlland. She fell ht. with largerlarger ,.., privateer, on Saturday last, otr the Litard, declined the contest, alter two hours fighting. 'l ° piri g ente had three men wounded. Several tn!!' l ,- chant ships, which were in sight at the time , which the .Privateer Would have captured, therepi.', made their escape ;' one of which, the (Auk*, cleetiec for London, ;he Dingente afterward* t„° ° ' her under her proteetiuil. , Sir J, W A Rese left or lite (1. % to the .I°lith Frigate, Lord Wlli.LiAg Fr"; SOY, on the Ist ult. tut. Berniaida, ter the season. - The expedition under Sir Gsuags vosT, which bad been +countermanded w.I , 10 ,f el 4 orders to sail on the sth ul t . ; its destination '` 3s West Inilies',and the object o t Whits been often ~t to be e to attack Martinique. The Niiian, Sir tt4 REFIT LAURIE; &ratio, Captain Scirrr ; Captain Dick; and the (Zeit/a, Lord Ferenov, (I.4igutes),it was understood, were to ..voy the transports. The recent regulations at the Castote•h y ". se i. here in regard to the aboli s h ment o f fees, days, &c. are, -after the 3t st ..inst. to he es tcii to ,Liverpool, Bri s t e l, Hull; Newcastle, p u r l"" mouth Plymouth, Lynn, Yarmouth, 11.0"l'es;:r, Southampton, Exeter, Falmo ut h C owes , letri" r— ,-.. 1 Ipswich Colchester, Sunderland, and S1"1;,");,'0' - Chester, Poole, -Dover, Whitby, Shieldi, haven, & c. are to remain as heretofore! bee Letters from. Rio Janeiro to 'h of 011 a the 9t , a 0)0 matt , that the President' Frigate had arrived ' o. Mace from Monte Vide o , w i t h two Spanish le)eng;ir net, invested with full powers to negociatell mercitil Treaty with t h e English. Sub,etlnt-'l/,,is county,. hoverer Of five . days later dater mil o that su c h 3 Treaty had been agreed to, and Pi vend vessels had sailed forjlie River Plate in " n tit:tenet:. to ° Letters fro m s'uut. 3 e mention, grime very v.g i ) o r, measures having been taken by the Nanoh in conit tu eti on w i th the British, to Brute ids strengthen hi s frontier, from Ation a h a d to %‘'' to • ard. A further augmentationhas been 11/3 his a i a iry, civet nest s army, of three regiments of timitstveral battalions of infantry.' r e le ve 4 ' lti4 terdaY gowning two Spanish Officer! a e at, Windsor and wai te d on the KING, e' *aids went t 9 St . Georges Chapel, and hea rd mots.